skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is considered "social" is also a cultural issue. People often talk about Steve Jobs being an asshole. I suspect he too didn't ascribe to the prevailing no-fault social model in de USA.

In terms of social interaction, the USA is the exception, not the norm. Many other cultures are more direct, critical, and less respectful of other's opinions if they "know better". For Aspies it would be easier to live elsewhere.

Americans somehow are no longer used to being told that they're wrong. They demand respect for their opinions (or worse: beliefs) which they won't get elsewhere unless based in facts/reason.

Have you ever worked with Europeans, especially people from The Netherlands or Russia?

Free advice is meted out generously and without excuses. According to them, Americans are extremely hung up on certain "niceties" that Dutchies (and much of Europe) consider "fake" or "politically correct". In reverse, Americans generally consider the French (and Dutch, and Russians, etc.) "rude".

I'm not necessarily saying the directness/truth is better, but it saves a bunch of time/bull as pointed out elsewhere. It requires some getting used to for the non-initiated... but once they do, they like it. My clients pay me for it.

I love working with 'Aspies', but I won't take them into a client meeting anymore. :-)

(chuckle: Customer is very happy with a new feature and remarks "oh wow, that must have taken a long time to implement". I was happy he said so, because we were close to going over budget and I wanted to send him another invoice. Aspie programmer, rightfully proud of his work: "oh no, not at all, perhaps 15 minutes!")
I won't be holding my breath for major browsers to remove support for JS click events!
> this one company coordinated a mass buying operation from commercial stores when the rest of use were looking for personal use.

Important to remember that really it wasn't this one company, they were just in the rare situation of needing drives enough to try and buy lots, and not needing enough that they could go further up the food chain in the search of them.

Think of companies such as PC manufacturers, you'd be amazed what was going on behind the scenes.
I think that you are trying to attribute the differences between "browsing" and "searching" to biological differences between genders. Every single porn site that I've seen has layout very similar to Pinterest, so clearly, men enjoy hunting and pecking, or "floating around the page for interesting content" as much as women do.

On a related note, I sincerely hope you are not in a position where you interview women for positions that require systematic thinking (a.k.a. "jobs"). Personally, I'd hate to be on the other side of the table if that were the case.
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Thanks for the reply! I have a few followup questions and points, though, if you don't mind.

Aren't state income taxes completely deductible from federal income taxes? So shouldn't that be just a 38% income tax for a sole proprietorship?

For the corporate side, i think you glossed over the part of who (the corporation, or me the ceo and code writer) owns the code and how much you (i) was paid by the corporation for it. It seems like in your example that the author gave the code to the corporation for free.

Wouldn't it be better for the author to charge (either as a licenseing fee, or as something like x% of the gross profits for 5 years after ownership of the code is transferred) the corporation a fixed percentage of gross profits for the code? That way that part is only subject to personal income tax, and the rest subject to the 35% corporate tax minus anything paid to the author of the code as a standard business expense.

I am also curious why you didn't account for the business expense of paying the code author/ceo, which should be directly deductible from the total corporate tax owed, right?

I think I am getting confused by the relationships between the corporation and the ceo, and the corporation and the code author. Isn't the corporation supposed to be its own person in the case of income tax that then pays its employees and dedcuts those payroll costs from its taxes?

Finally,it might surprise you based on the last few comments i've made, but i'm not a fan of any corporate income tax at all, because it think it makes the tax laws and the line between natural person and non-natural person much more complicated. I think it would be much easier to only tax natural persons on their income/benefits/investments. There's also a direct benefit to the consumer, since a few studies/articles I've read have claimed that all corporate taxes are just passed onto the consumer as a price increase.

Finally, while the US might have the highest corporate tax rate on paper, I think it's entirely relevant that it has an effective/empirical corporate tax rate of only 12.1% (source: [1]).

[1]: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/03/418171/corporate...

sorry for the blog link, but wsj is behind a pay wall, and this has the relevant part quoted.
I have yet to see anything so groundbreaking in JS that it would actually warrant obfuscation. But well, I guess that if you're obsessed with the thought of script kiddies stealing your precious c0dez, then JS obfuscation might be for you; the market niche indeed exists. I'll be curious to see how this compares to the existing obfuscation tools.
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I'm not sure what being Amazon'd or Wal-Mart'd is. Are you talking about commoditization?
Although I am in the process of moving away from Backblaze, it's not because of this. Rather it's because they don't provide the flexibility I've come to need for prioritizing content to backup, and when I recently ran into a problem after swapping out hard drives, the error message Backblaze provided was the most unhelpful piece of drivel I've ever seen. --I was told to contact support with the error code "horse" rather than just being told that it was a timeout issue!
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Really interesting proposition, sounds a bit like magic and/or too good to be true. :) Still, good luck and thanks for providing this, of course.

Oh, and a minor thing to fix: page footer says "service provide by natch", it should probably say provided.
We have strict laws governing the sales and services of all kinds of things. Some of them are good, some are bad. The strictness and enforcement of these laws can also range from state-to-state.

The problem with some of these laws are that often they were written with the idea of protecting a business concern to maintain their advantage over, and to the detriment of, the consumer.
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Can you substantiate your claim that "Biotech crops are probably key to our survival and prosperity as a species"? There is little evidence supporting that that I can find.

Globally, we currently produce more food than we need. The problems we currently have around starvation and malnutrition appear from my limited research to be centred on distribution, comoditization and other socio-economic factors.

How do biotech crops (current or future) tackle these issues?
This would be a more interesting article if the author understood that the real reason for the increasing cost of both education and healthcare is the decoupling of the buyer and the seller. With healthcare, the decoupler is health insurance; with higher education, it is the student loan. (Doesn't everybody understand this fact by now?)

I experienced the former, once again, just yesterday at the doctor's office. He explained several procedures he wanted me to undergo. When I asked him specifically about one of them, he explained "because your insurance covers it." I shit you not. When I laughed he looked puzzled.

And anyone who had seen how easy it was to get a student loan in the past 10 or 15 years, with very little qualifying information required, should understand the latter point.
Shame on the cheaters, but I don't see how they're hurting anyone but themselves.

In the spirit of the Platonic ideal of the Academy it seems beneficial to freely share and exchange ideas.
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Is it bad? Why? What would be worse - making references to monkeys/ SurveyMonkey indirectly or directly referencing the company name and all? I don't know. Is one okay and the other not?

I think that sometimes these things can be done in bad taste but I don't necessarily see anything illegal or unethical about it. Its pretty normal for a competitor to try to contrast themselves with a dominant company. Doing so can often lift you up to the level of the dominant competitor in the eyes of consumers and other times it looks like you're taking unfair cheap shots at the big guy. In this case I thought what Pop Survey did was okay. They definitely made their case by showing the difference between the products. I thought it was fair. Its not like they only went out name calling, they backed up their claim.
Fair enough. I would rather the site showed me that it discovered the account/data and then gave me the option to include it or not, that would have seemed a bit less intrusive. The assumption that it's automatically stuff I want on that profile may not be true. I may not want to present that particular name or profile pic, or deal with not accepting friend requests from clients.
Costco'd: http://www.costcoauto.com/
I'm more concerned about the self-replicating part. I don't want human self-replication technology (aka childbirth) to become patented. Don't laugh, some genes already are.
"If, after the sales pitch, you’re ready to pull the trigger, you are politely directed to a computer to make your deposit and place your order."

Sounds like their business model will be left for a judge to decide. I think people on HN are angry because the auto industry feels like a monopoly and the law that Tesla might be infringing on should be illegal any ways. But what the judge wil have to decide is whether Tesla's interpretation of the law is correct. In normal cases this could take a pretty long time and Tesla would be able to operate until a judge says otherwise.

Without reading the law I would like to think that Tesla is onto something here. Just like the rest of the angry HN users, I would feel satisfied to know that the big auto industry wrote a law for their own benefit and technology passed them by.
Simple functionality for a specific purpose.
Good clear web design.

Like it !

As to how the product should evolve ?
You could view how people are using the product and then communicate with them on how THEY would love to see the product evolve.

About Monetization : My advice would be to not think about monetizing before it has a sizable and regular user base. Concentrate on getting more users. This is the hard part. Monetization is relatively easier.
So the design is nice and I get that it's minimal. However, my impression is that teams want something a bit more full-featured. Have you looked at the competition much?

I've been using Asana. I also liked Wunderlist for this kind of more minimal todo-list.

How do you want to differentiate yourself? Right now the difference I see is that your lists are public and linkable, but I'm not sure that's something teams want (I don't).
I heard there's one state where you need a license to do interior design, how is that for bullshit legislation?
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More often than not it's a case of who you know when it comes to stuff like this.
Is she also an activist for 14 year-olds? The word "female" is there to identify her.
"If it’s overturned, it will have cataclysmic repercussions for the business model in the seed biotech industry," Benbrook said by telephone. "It would basically end the agricultural biotech industry as we know it, certainly for soybeans."

Two things:

1. Someone will still make money from it. Innovation will still occur.

2. Indeed, the industry will change, to a better and fairer one. Oh woe be to humanity!
People keep complaining about games, which is funny because it is my job to make games using HTML5 and javascript.

No it is not good enough to produce an AAA title -- but those are far from the entire market.
CPU performance is simply far beyond what we need in most cases.

What's the average CPU utilization of desktops/laptops across the world? I wouldn't be surprised if it was even lower.

My laptop:

Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
SurveyMonkey is just trying to protect their brand, which is fair, while PopSurvey seems to be making a bigger deal about it than they should - they tried to market with monkies for obvious reasons, and now they are trying to look like they are getting pushed around.
For Google Search use this userscript http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923 Work in FF & Google Chrome.
The dealer makes more than that from the new car. In addition to the invoice price (which is significantly higher than the dealer price) they also make money from add-ons, extended warranties, and the loan terms.

This doesn't stop them from making top dollar on everything else that they can though.
Generated code rarely is. The compiler I maintain at work had “readable output” as one of its early goals. That was abandoned around when we started adding optimisations.
unnecessarily negative, belittling, and mean-spirited. has putting this person down made you feel better about yourself?
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Right. My point is it is illegal to enter an order into the market with the intent of goading someone into trading or to manipulate the price unless it is a bona-fide offer to buy or sell. Intent matters with regard to illegality, and I don't think anybody questions the 'intent' of most HFT shops.

Creating the illusion of volume where none exists has long been illegal - people used to paint the tape long before HFT exists to achieve the same thing.

You've provided a good description of why HFT do what they do, and one could argue that laws need to be changed to allow this market behavior. (I would disagree) Much of what they do is illegal by present law, but none of the big market players want the law enforced, so the SEC looks the other way.
I looked at the link page. The CSS was perfectly sensible (and available) and the JavaScript just looked like it had been run through something like Closure.

Perhaps they have yet to eat their own dog food?
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For Google Search use this userscript http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923 Works in FF & Google Chrome.
I see it slightly different - Mac vs PC or Pepsi Challenge calls out the competition and tries to show the consumer why the product is better. This seems to be marketing with an attempt to confuse the brand.
Github already offers free micro plan (5 private repos) for verified students. Unlimited private repos is a rather big hammer and might attract abuse.

edit for link: https://github.com/edu
How would you expose POSIX on Windows?
And the invoice price is always more than they pay for the vehicle anyway. It's not uncommon to see new vehicles advertised at several hundred below invoice (most I've seen is -$300 or so).
> arguably the most libertarian country on earth, as far as business is concerned

Ahahaha, I hope you're joking. The US isn't even close to being libertarian. The American economic system isn't based on capitalism, it's based on corporatism and regulatory capture.
No. An analogous example would be if you invented a way to produce an artificial (human) organ (e.g., liver) that was indistinguishable from a natural one.
Now, how many British people live in Paris?

According to Eurostat there are more British people in France than French people in UK ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/26/europe-p... ). Not to mention the coast of Spain which is "England in the Sun". I can't find figures on cities.

There are always people who move around./
If it's this easy to "cheat" on these assignments, then maybe the professors should sit down and think about how to properly craft assignments. It's clear to me that traditional assignment grading will not work in an online/anonymous environment - appealing to a code of honor will not help if they want the certificate of completion to actually hold meaning.

I don't have any actual suggestions other then when I was in school the assignments were worth about 10-15% of our final grade because of this very reason (shared solutions). Actual knowledge was tested in other ways: presentations, quizzes, exams, etc.

Revoking the completion certificate for everyone else is NOT a way to build trust with the community at large - use those large academic brains and come up with a better solution.
Why is SV Angel so indecisive?
"But that doesn't mean it's a useless question."

Is it a useful question, just because it was asked?
It is not good enough to produce Minecraft.
Under most rankings of economic freedom, the United States barely manages to be in the top 10. The Heritage Foundation places Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, and Ireland all above the United States on their Index of Economic Freedom.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
Don't forget local taxi/livery commissions...:)
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The number of people that would buy a capacitor, motor/servo or PIC is not what it used to be. Electronics don't ship with schematics anymore or have nice big through-hole components that are easy for a layman to replace. I miss the old Radio Shack too, but we are in a tiny minority.
Pretty detailed walk-through of touch gestures and how we can use them in our applications.
good write up on the behind the scenes page on how we built it.
http://www.contrejour.ie/BehindTheScenes.html
People who want bytecode has nothing to do with bytecode being better; they want bytecode because they want their language of choice to be a first class citizen and JavaScript-as-assembly means their language will always be second class.
Are you listening to yourself? Can you imagine a "smartphone" mobile platform without AAA game titles?

I'm assuming they will have some sort of NDK?

Neat project none the less!
I do have a couple of links that I could share with anyone interested, but I am currently in the process of building a portfolio website.
I know right? I have a couple college friends working for GM. They get some awesome employee discount, and can flip it and buy a new car every 6mo or year or so. But they still have to go through dealers to buy their car. It's crazy. They can see their car in the GM lot, as it's being built, but they have to wait until it's shipped to a dealer, pay through a dealer, pick out their options through a dealer and submit a build sheet through a dealer, and still wade though dealers trying to up sell them on crap sitting on the dealer lots, just to "buy" their car.
> Figure out the features you need and contact multiple dealerships for a quote.

Sites like http://www.autobytel.com/ can help simplify this process.

See also: AutoNation’s AutoUSA, Microsoft Corporation’s MSN Autos, CarsDirect.com, Cars.com, eBayMotors.com, Dealix.com, and AutoTrader.com.
I really don't think it's "unnecessarily negative". I see so many people wasting their time by working on 'ideas' that aren't even real ideas. He could have used his time better doing something actually useful. A lot of programmers have a big tunnel vision. They want to create a 'startup' no matter what, and then they come up with a 'TODO list' and waste many months of their valuable time working on it, just to be disappointed when they realize there is no need for it.

You can be very kind and tell him that the idea is awesome and that he will become a millionaire, but please be a bit more realistic and just tell him the truth.
What exactly do you think F1 would sue Red Bull for?

Without RB having a contract of some type with F1, it is unlikely there is any way for them to sue RB. It may be possible for F1 to sue the driver, but at this point that would seem ridiculous since RB is now a huge F1 sponsor.

Accidents also don't eliminate lawsuits. Even if there was a way for F1 to sue RB, they should still be able to sue them for accidents. For example, if RB had a contract with F1 which stipulated when and how RB could be shown, and RB showed their product at a different time by accident F1 could still sue them.
Golden rice is an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
...but imagine what would be to see someones G+ or Fb profile on Reddit (or request to see it and only have access to it of the Reddit user gives it to you) and then add it (submit a friend request) in a way such that he/she sees that you added him via Reddit and automagically sees your most recent common Reddit "conversations" on the side of the accept/deny friendship request so has enough infos and context to quickly make a decision... combine this with some non-annoying non-awkard psychometrics for whoever chooses to use them/accepts being used by them and it would start to be less "socially" retarted...

...the only HARD thing to do would be to make all these things unobstrusive enough so that they's happen without taking extra time and incurring too much cognitive overload

...or maybe 90% of users would be too "IT dumb" too actually benefit from and therefore use these advances ...and they would not bring enough extra revenue for behemonts like Fb